Korea Open: Zhao through to second round

Canadian qualifier Carol Zhao won against wildcard Dayeon Back 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Korea Open at the Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul on Monday.

Zhao, ranked No 272, will play No 4 seed Diana Shnaider next.

Seoul WTA 500, other first-round results (Olympic Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Tatjana Maria vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Su Jeong Jang
• Polina Kudermetova vs. Priscilla Hon
• Peyton Stearns vs. Emma Raducanu
• Sloane Stephens vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Varvara Lepchenko
• Heather Watson (Q) beat Jia-Jing Lu (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
• Yue Yuan (8) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2